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[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
That would be a great point if it were true. Can you honestly say with a straight face that smartphone performance is "stagnating?" Name one current 1080p phone that isn't more powerful than the 720p phones from a year ago despite the increase in resolution.

I heard all the same arguments when phones started transitioning from 480x800/QHD to 720p, and all of them ended up being moot because smartphones SOCs were (and still are) advancing at a stratospheric pace. The performance gains that are being made more than outweigh the additional power that's required to drive a higher resolution screen, which is borne out in both real-world usage and benchmark scores.

Innovation drives innovation. When manufacturers start building higher-resolution displays, SOC makers build higher-end chips that can drive the displays, and vice versa. I've used Android phones with resolutions ranging from 240x320 all the way up to 1080x1920, and the fastest of the bunch (by a mile) are the 1080x1920 phones. Your arguments simply don't pan out in the real world.
[Nexus 5 General] dacho:
If nexus 4 had LTE i couldn't justify upgrading to nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] D3_:
You may not be able to notice a difference, but going from the 5.5" 720p display on my Note 2 to the 5" 1080p display on the Nexus 5, things look much sharper on the Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] mistahseller:
word.
[Nexus 5 General] foxmeister:
I use remote desktop apps a lot. There is a world of difference between using them on a 720p device and a 1080p device.

It is more evident on larger devices (e.g. Note 2 vs Note 3) but still applies to N4/N5.

Regards,

Dave
[Nexus 5 General] tcat007:
Funny, I have a 720p TV 50" plasma and a 1080 60" plasma, I can't tell the difference and actually think the 720 one is sharper (both good Panasonic). But then I can't tell much difference in a regular 480 DVD and Bluray. Yeah I'm "old" with glasses... but on a 5" screen no way I notice the difference. My Nexus 7 looks MUCH better than my Nexus 5... mainly colors, but no real difference in clarity (although held next to each other the N5 looks "muddy", blacks not nearly as black on N5). I still like using my N5, it transfers files MUCH faster.
[Nexus 5 General] raptir:
Well, the PPI is only going up from 30ppi to 36ppi in the case of your two TVs. The N4 has a PPI of ~317 while the N5 has a PPI of ~445. Much more significantly different.
[Nexus 5 General] shoco:
Performance hasn't increased when it comes to 3D games, that I can tell you with a straight face because it's true.

The N5 can barely pull 30 fps in its native resolution in 3D intensive games, no performance increase compared to the N4 in native resolution as well. Just like I said, every improvement made on the SOC is wasted to drive those extra pixels.

Now, compare that to the iPhone 5S which has doubled the real world performance in 3D games compared to the iPhone 5, while increasing battery life, and you can see who's doing it right and who isn't.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
If you're going to bring Apple into the mix as an example of how things should be done, then let's take a look at the iPad 2 and iPad 3. The iPad 3 has to render 4x as many pixels as the iPad 2 with only twice as much processing power. I'll give you that the transition from the iPhone 5 to the 5S isn't the same thing, but my point is that even Apple isn't immune to spec-chasing at the expense of performance. Not to mention that iOS is optimized for UI smoothness at the expense of a lot of other things that we love about Android.

I should also point out that Apple will likely be moving into much higher resolutions for the iPhone next year after stubbornly sticking with 640x960 for 4(!) years, by which point you'll also be seeing much more powerful SOCs being used in Android phones than even today. Like I said before, innovation drives innovation. That's how this works.

Your points are noted but are ultimately irrelevant. I could just as easily go back in time 2 years and make the exact same argument that 480x800 resolution is good enough, and going to 540x960 or even 720x1280 is just not worth the performance cost. How do you arbitrarily draw a line in the sand and say "OK guys, good enough. We're stopping at 720p," when you could have said the same thing a couple years ago about 480p?

The bottom line is that display resolution will continue to increase for the foreseeable future, and SOC horsepower will inevitably overshadow even those advances. Tell me that the N5 (1080x1920) doesn't vastly outperform the original Motorola Droid (480x854). You're looking at this with too much of a short-term viewpoint.
[Nexus 5 General] MoosDiagramm:
Do games actually render at 1080p? I wouldn't be surprised if fast 3D games render at 720p since you are unlikely to notice on a 5" screen at 60 frames per second.

I don't want to argue with people who say that still text looks clearer on a 5" 1080p screen than on a 5" 720p screen, but for a first person shooter the difference would be negligible.
[Nexus 5 General] jimlad:
Marketing works well, those that buy a new phone each year or even sooner will notice only small differences, however change we must and glad I am. :p
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
Now THAT is a valid point, although a lot of games do render at full resolution.
[Nexus 5 General] shadowcore:
Well, after FULL HD in 1080P, you will not be able to physically notice any more things in phones, but text will get smaller and maybe the phone would not have to down or up scale videos.

The real retina display is at about 470 PPI. At that amount, you would not be able to see a signle pixel even with perfect vision.

The retina displays of iphone or what people claim that to be at 320 or so PPI, only holds true if you hold your phone 12 coll away from your phone. Thats 30 cm.

7-10 years from now, assuming science finds a way to continue the law of ever doubling of computer performance every 18 months(Moore's law), 2k or 4k in phones wont matter. I find phones at 4.7 coll hardly practical, let alone >5 coll.

I am not an optimist, so I believe that in the future, we will have the same tech as we do now. Yeah, better proccessors, great. Better memory speeds, great, cloud, social media/network integration, great... In the end of the day, I can do most of that stuff less efficiently now. So whats the big deal?

Battery tech is not advancing alot. Your nexus 5 has the same battery capacity has the flagships of last year. The G2s capacity is not too impressive either because there were other phones, Motorola Razr Maxx, that did 3000 mah battery before.

What I really wonder is what OEMs and others do with the coming generations. How much can you change or improve? Afterall, its "Never change a working system".

Any OEM could release the perfect smartphone today with the best of specs and thats it. What more could you ask from a phone? Office in phones? Writing in phones? I dont think so. I have difficulty writing anything in a touchscreen and well. Phones cant replace a desktop, a notebook, a tablet.

Thats it really.

I wish people talked more about these type of stuff. They are intellectually pleasing to talk about.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
I see what you're getting at, but you have to realize that your perspective changes as technology changes. In 2010, I couldn't have imagined a much better phone than my Droid Incredible. Look where we are now. In a few years, you'll look back on your Nexus 5 the same way. You adapt to new features and capabilities but don't notice them as much while they happen. A few years later, the cumulative changes are dramatic in ways that you wouldn't have guessed at the time.
[Nexus 5 General] Cactus42:
I don't understand why this is even a point? A higher resolution isn't so you can show off the size of a pixel, it's for smoother sharper overall display.

I don't have a 1080p TV so I can spend the time pointing out how small the pixel is on a bluray compared to a DVD, I have it because the overall image quality is far superior.
[Nexus 5 General] illr:
Here's what you do... Put your n4 down and do not look/use it for a week just use your n5. When that week is up turn on your n4 and come back and tell us if you still see no difference in the two phones screens.
[Nexus 5 General] sluflyer06:
Your joking right? There's no such thing as "VTEC" transmissions. VTEC is simply a dual lobe camshaft system, cams are in the cylinder head BTW not the transmission.

I do hope you were joking.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
Those are speed holes. They make the car go faster.
[Nexus 5 General] gtg465x:
If you have good eyesight it makes a difference. With the Nexus 4 it was kind of hard to make out smaller text on full desktop sites like theverge.com without zooming in. With the HTC One it's just as small, but the text is crisp and easier to read without having to zoom in.

Below 4.5 inches, 720p is fine. On 4.5 to 5 inch screens I would prefer 1080p, but could live with 720p. Above 5, gotta have 1080p.
[Nexus 5 General] mariano3113:
The only videos I transfer over are 1080i or 1080p rips (mainly 1080i Top Gear)

I from a logical standpoint would believe this to be more beneficial and practical on a 1920x1080 screen as it would be more straight-forward in terms of up/down convert.

I went from "800x480" (TP2 - Evo 4G) to 1280x720 (Note 2) to 1920x1080 (Nexus 5)

I find that the video even when paused - looks much sharper and is rendered in a more fluid/natural way on the Nexus 5. (Even 1080 vids shot from the modified Evo 4G or Note 2 - play and look better on the Nexus 5)

Some of that has to do with video playback and SoC and codecs can play into that, but I think it is less tasking when a videos can be played in a Native resolution on a screen versus the need for scaling.

(Also- I find playback better in Full-screen than when it is not in fullscreen.)
[Nexus 5 General] Ohm_Dawgg:
In my opinion one thing apple got right was their "retina" resolution on iPhone. ~326 ppi seems to be the limit for me although I don't have perfect 20/20 vision. I can't see a single pixel on my nexus 4 either and it's 320 ppi I think. 1080p on any smartphone seems overkill to me especially on a screen <5 inches. I guess it's just easier for oems to use a standard format like 1080p than to create a custom one just to squeeze in a few extra pixels.

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[Nexus 5 General] kypeth:
Take a screenshot on your nexus 4 and view it on your Nexus 5, this will demonstrate the difference in resolution quite well, blurry statusbar among most things
[Nexus 5 General] Teio:
Commented by accident
[Nexus 5 General] mcgon1979:
Exactly. It provides sharper text and sharper images. i.e. you can show a 1000x1000 photo on a news article without scaling. It's perfect. :good:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Tijntje:
Hi all,

I've been searching this forum (and the rest of the internet) for this question but there are not really similar answers.

I would like to root my nexus 4 just to be able to change the host file in the system folder. The rest if the phone I would like to remain stock (for now). But since android 4.4 is coming up I was wondering if it is still possible to receive the OTA update after performing this action.

Anyone knows an answer to this question?

Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
edit: I am checking on something for you... you will receive OTA updates but checking to see if host file is one of the files it checks before it upgrades.

More than likely any changes to your system folder will cause it too fail

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2417810
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredericve:
In my experience you still receive OTA updates, but you lose root while updating. I'm not sure if the hosts file is changed though.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meZQureshi:
If you're rooted and you've stock recovery then you'll be able to Upgrade but if you've rooted n installed 3rd party recovery then you'll receive update but it won't install. It will fail.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredericve:
Are you sure about that? I've been running cwm recovery ever since 4.2.0. Every ota update was received and installed without issues, but I always simply lost root until a new method for the new android release appeared.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrono_Tata:
You can still receive OTA but I would suggest not accepting it and flash it manually using a "safe" method. The OTA update from 4.2 to 4.3 caused problems on rooted phones. Usually it is fine but 4.3 changed the file system which caused the problem, so better be safe than sorry.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Tijntje:
Thank you all for your replies, this tells me again that it is quite difficult to say what happens. Since KitKat is probably coming to the Nexus 4 one of these days I will stay stock for now and decide later if I want to root my phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinndissension:
I used superSU Pro, and turned on "survival mode" when I did the OTA update to 4.3, and didn't have any problems losing root. Sometimes I'll get a message say I may have lost root access, but I've never had any problems with apps that require root.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schmit:
on the last update.. I wasn't getting the OTA until I unrooted. I think you have to unlock the bootloader too.. then I immediately received the OTA. I didn't have stock recovery. I was glad that I didn't have to wipe everything.. I then re-rooted.. was good to go.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gekrem:
All,

I recently purchased a Galaxy Note III in Australia.

A few hours later, I left my phone in the local KMART counter by accident. After searching for the phone for a whole day. I reported my phone as lost to my carrier and they IMEI blocked my phone.

2 days later, the local KMART store called me to let me know that someone has handed in my phone in.

I called up my carrier to let them know I found the phone, unfortunately however I was advised after 24 hours of the phone being reported as lost or stolen and IMEI blocked it cannot be restored/undone.

I am now stuck with a dead Galaxy Note III that I cannot use to make calls and a 24 month contract I cannot cancel with my carrier.

Can someone please help guide me the process I need to follow in order to change IMEI number on my phone permanently?

I have seen several guides on the internet however they are related to the S3/Note II and nothing on the Note III.

I'm really needing someone to help me with this. I appreciate the help.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
It is illegal to change the IMEI of a phone in Oz... No-one here on XDA will give you those instructions....
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcracks:
If u are the ph owner with proof ...then go shout bang and whatever at yr carrier and ask them to fix or replace the unit.

Teleported from my SM-N9005 from the Enterprise
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gekrem:
They wont do it. It's my fault and it can't be unblocked.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android Newbe:
Can be unblocked

Since You Purchase the Handset on Contract, Just go back to the original Store of Purchase and explain the situation to them.

They will have all your details on the Computer. (Your Name, Address, IMEI of Handset.) They can make a call or give you the Information to prove Ownership.

I saw this on many occasions. Customers misplacing handsets and having them Blocked only to find them after a frantic search.

If You can show Proof of Ownership IT CAN BE UNBLOCKED.

I used to work for Telstra and know for a fact that they can be unblocked. Just need to prove that You are the Original Owner and have a Store Receipt and/or Contract Details.

More Info here - http://www.amta.org.au/pages/amta/FAQs.on.mobile.security
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Mod Edit

Discussing,advertising,advocating changes or replacement of imei numbers is not allowed on XDA.

Thread closed

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Gigii1:
Hey. I take a look on ace forum and i saw some more activity than on gio. Would someone port this rom for Gio ? : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2234221
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] TobiH8:
If I had time, I really would do because porting Gingerbread roms to Gio from Ace is very easy (in most cases; I have done this one time myself and had luckily no errors). Try to search in the Gio forum because there are tutorials how to do this maybe you can do it yourself (you just have to replace some files in the zip and hope). Currently I have too much work to do for school. :(

Btw.: Sad that there's no developer really and only working for the Galaxy Gio. The Gio is not that bad if you do not wan't to play any games. But without developers I have to sell it (if someone buys such an old phone what I doubt) and replace it by a Firefox OS phone. A fully working CyanogenMod 10.0 would be the best rom for me. MMBs version has this nasty security force close bug. But all this is off topic, but I have to write this because I still like my Gio even if I have a much better phone (Galaxy Nexus).
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] AngSanley:
gonna do this if i have some time & bandwidth
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] khevin:
Hello there ,

sorry for this noob question ,

i got this mobile and for quite a while am really bored with gingerbread , and i would like to know if it's possible to have jelly bean installed on it,

and yes don't worry about voiding the guarantee as it already expired.

If it is possible , can anyone redirect me to a tutorial.

Thanks
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] TheFixItMan:
There is no jellybean for galaxy y - any site that claims to have a jellybean rom is lying or its just a themed Gingerbread rom with a fake modded build.prop to make it look like jellybean

Look in dev section and find a rom you like look of

Please do not ask for best one as that is against xda rules
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Ma.Style10:
This same, build.prop modified. Nothing jellybean or CM10 for a while.

For tue jellybean in Galaxy y would have at least the sources of broadcom to compile an appropriate driver.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] khevin:
i found some thread about jelly blast , i got what you guys are trying to explain to me , thanks for the response
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] menewtoroot:
Jst luk for some roms...
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] shadman0:
It is not relley Jellybean it gives jellybean experince and android version is change from buid.prop

Shadman0 If I help U Pls Give Thanks

My Work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2521867
[HTC One S] Papleaka:
Hy all,

I have a HTC ONE S, and I need to install stock again the problem is that I don't know which RUU is oke for my phone. My CID is VODAP304 and Main-Version is blank. So i guess i need to flash a stock ROM but I don't know which one is good. Please help me, what should I do?!

The bootloader is Unlocked and internal storage is empty too.

And this is my phone:

fastboot getvar all

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 2.15.0000

INFOversion-baseband: 1.11.50.05.28

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: None

INFOversion-main:

INFOversion-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON

INFOserialno: xxxxxxxxxx

INFOimei: xxxxxxxxx

INFOproduct: vle

INFOplatform: HBOOT-8960

INFOmodelid: PJ4010000

INFOcidnum: VODAP304

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 4193mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: on

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: dirty-64bedd38

INFOhbootpreupdate: 11

INFOgencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.068s
[HTC One S] Papleaka:
Solved

Problem solved with miuiandroid_ville_3.11.8_jb-4.1 it makes his own settings and permisions for root. I had internal memory formated and it works.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erkan75:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2517774

[Q] Exchange - calendar sync only last 2 weeks

Tried all new custom roms here-with and w/o gapps-always the same problem :-\

No one's using exchange except me!?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] machinagod:
Hi to all,

In my current blog: http://rocking.blog.com/ I've been making some posts about the research I'm conducting on the HTC Universal. Of particular interested is the listing of a few datasheets related to the GSM/WCDMA hardware on the device.

Comments are welcome,

Ricardo

EDIT: Corrected some typos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] machinagod:
New Data

Been hacking away at the Uni, particularly in the Radio chips.

I've managed to compile the following info, please comment it, prove me wrong...

Known facts:

1 - The Samsung chip is a 32MB+32MB NAND + SDRAM combination. It stores the Radio firmware in the NAND and the SDRAM is used for execution of the Nucleus OS and qualcomm extensions of the GSM + WCDMA radio.

2 - The NAND memory is mapped in 0x60000000, at least in the bootloader mapping. However, this mapping only covers 0x1000000 bytes (16MB).

Questions:

1 - Where are the other 16 MB of NAND memory mapped?

2 - Is the bootloader memory mapping equal to the OS memory mapping?

3 - What's the radio bootloader password?

4 - Was HTC drunk when they designed the Universal?

Please comment on the above statements and questions. (You can skip number 4 of course :lol: )

Bye to all and happy hacking!

Ricardo
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] PulseDroid:
Hello okes!

I've bought a P6 yesterday, and I am shocked you don't have an Off-topic to discuss random things.

It's Exam time here atm, but after that I'll try my best to bring you okes some ROMS, this looks like a great device without any Dev support ( Cause of Chipset )

A bit about myself:

I'm am a very techy 14 year old from South-Africa, I play National tennis.

Devices I own:

Galaxy Ace

Nexus 7

Huawei P6 Black

Feel free to tell us a bit about yourself too! Use this thread to discuss Dev stuff, ask questions or just socialize.
[Nexus 7 General] butler0607:
Sorry if this sounds like an obvious question but I'm a bit confused! If KitKat is optimised to run on 512mb apps, doesn't mean that on devices like ours with lots if RAM, the performance will increase dramatically thanks to a lot of spare RAM? Also, to me, if you're running such low mb ROM 2GB of RAM seems a bit wasteful (I.E. you'll be paying for a function with little benefit?) Is thus about right or am I way off the point?
[Nexus 7 General] Dr. Globbyglob:
I think so, the spare RAM should make the ROM about 3 times more spare RAM, and quite fast.
[Nexus 7 General] jabbathewocket:
Short answer.. your way off..

Long Answer..

The big change is that the system now degrades gracefully on low resource devices.. so things like animations and textures are reduced to maintain the systems overall performance even on low resource devices.. versus say jellybean and ICS which simply tried to run regardless even on the original G1.. bringing the entire system down to a crawl (this is a vastly oversimplified version of a portion of what is going on in 4.4 and is not meant to be exhaustive explanation)

The second part of your question is why I want to strangle every marketing person from the beginning of time.. just because the system CAN operate with less ram does NOT mean that it is not USING all of the ram in your device.. the system will invariably use up as much as it can get its hands on (and still try to grab some more!)
[Nexus 7 General] butler0607:
OK, I think I get it! Thanks for the help :)
[Nexus 7 General] darkchazz:
Improved memory management should (in theory) also help the Tegra 3 chip since it has slow single-channel ram.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] varun.gid:
Guys i have a small problem here.. I took a couple of pictures usign the camera, and it asked me if i want to view them using Photos ior album.. I pressed photos as default. Now i want to change the default as Album. I tried clearing Photos and videos as default but doesn't help. Please help me?